Birx HALF of COVID positive tests may be FALSE POSITIVES and CDC admits it if prevalence is low

   

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Published on Aug 7, 2020

"If you have 1% of your population infected, and you have a test that's only 99% specific, that means that when you find a positive, 50% of the time will be a real positive and 50% of the time it won't be," Birx said.

In other words, if the prevalence of infection in the community is 1%, about half of all positive tests will be false positives. Depending on the manufacturer, the test may return even higher rates of false results.


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